Approaches to XML – Part 1 – XML is not a String…

XML has been around a long time: from memory, I’d guess that it’s about 12-14 years old by now; it’s…

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OAuth 2.0 Webapp Flow Overview

In my last few blogs I’ve been talking about accessing Software as a Service (SaaS) providers such as Facebook and…

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Getting Started with Spring Social

Like me, you will not have failed to notice the current rush to ‘socialize’ applications, whether it’s adding a simple…

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A Birds’s Eye View of Maven

One of the things that we do on a daily basis is use Maven to build our projects by issuing…

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Implementing the State Machine Pattern as a Stream Processor

In my last blog, I said that I really thought that some of the Gang Of Four (GOF) patterns were…

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The Strategy Pattern

In a recent blog on I received a comment from Wojciech Soczy?ski about how the “strategy” pattern can be used…

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Integrating Spring Into Legacy Applications

One of the things that all Spring developers like to do is to shoehorn Spring into any application they work…

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Disassembling Tell Don’t Ask

In my last blog I defined Tell Don’t Ask (TDA) using a simple shopping cart example. In it the shopping…

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Isn’t Java a Civilised Language?

A few weeks ago I was given the opportunity to learn iOS programming. My boss decided that I was more…

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